Re: NMUing generally

2014-07-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/17/2014 05:47 AM, Wookey wrote: > Mostly. I've done a pile recently (40+) (largely autoconf-update bugs) > and only had one instance of outright hostility It is my experience as well that, almost everyone is nice and accept NMU, but there's always a few instances of moronic reactions. I try

Re: nmudiff enhancements (was: NMUing generally)

2014-07-16 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Wookey [140716 23:48]: > BTW is there a reason why nmudiff doesn't actually do the upload, as > well as filing the bug? It's very easy to forget the upload and thus > confuse the maintainer by saying 'I have uploaded foo to delayed/X' > when in fact you've not. > > It could easily enough run du

Re: NMUing generally

2014-07-16 Thread Wookey
+++ Holger Levsen [2014-07-16 15:17 +0200]: > Hi Riku, > > On Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014, Riku Voipio wrote: > > This a side-effect from Debian's policy that discourages fixing bugs in > > other maintainers packages via NMUs. Somehow, it is felt better to > > remove packages from testing than possibl